The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-06-11
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AkZabeth charlotte, the Duchess OF
Orleans, writing Under the date of
December 6, 171S, says: "The late
King, Monsieur the Dauphin, and the
Due de Berri were terrible eaters. /
have often seen the King eat four plates
of different kinds of soup, whole
pheasant, a partridge, a dish of salad,
two thick slices of ham, mutton favored
with garlic, a plateful of pastry, and
finish his repast with fruit and hard
boiled eggs" There was a good old
German from Wittenberg, where my
Lord Hamlet attended the university,
who had fine faculty for storing away
provender. His case is well attested.
For wager he would eat whole
sheep or a whole pig, or put out OF
sight a bushel of cherries, stones and
all. He lived until he was about eighty
years of age, a greater portion of the
time supporting himself by exhibiting
the popularity of his appetite, which,
to say the least, must have been a very
eccentric one. Thus. he would chew
glass, earthenware and flint into small
fragments. He had an especial prefer
ence for caterpillars, mice and birds,
and when these were not procurable he
would content himself with mineral
substances.
Once he put down his "maw and
gulf" pen, the ink and the sand
pounce, and he would have gobbled the
inkstand, too, had he not been re-
strained Taylor, the water poet, tells
of Nicholas Wood, of the county of
Kent, in England, who was tolerably
good trencherman. On one occasion
he got away with q whole sheep, at
another time with several rabbits; at
third with three dozen pigeons-well
grown pigeons, not squads; again with
eighteen yards of black buildings, and
on two other occasions sixty pounds of
cherries, and three pecks of damsons.
DR.. COPELAND, in speaking of two chill
dren who had wonderful appetites, the
youngest, seven years old, being the
worse, said: The quantity of food
devoured by her was astonishing.
Every thing that could be laid hold of,
even in its raw state, was seized upon
most greedily. Among other articles
an uncooked rabbit, half a pound of can
dies and some butter were taken at one
time. The mother stated that this lit
tie girl, who was apparently in good
health otherwise, took more food, if
she could possibly obtain it, than the
rest of her family, consisting of six be-
sides herself.
A trife over a hundred years ago a
London youth ate five pounds of
shoulder of lamb and two quarts of
green peas in fifty minutes; and a
Polish soldier who was presented at the
court of Saxony, succeeded in one day
in getting outside of twenty pounds of
beef and half roast calf, with the APP
propriate ''fixings." When George LII.
was King, watchmaker's apprentice,
nineteen years of age, in three-quarters
of an hour devoured q leg of pork
weighing six pounds and proper
tionate quantity of pease pudding,
washing it all down with pint OF
brandy, taking in two 'tots.' The
tall Nick Davenport, the actor, is
known to have eaten seven-pound
turkey at a single sitting. Instances OF
depraved appetite are numerous, and
men have been known to swallow fire,
swords, spiders, flies, toads, serpents,
cotton, hair clay, chalk, flint, musket
balls and earthenware. One man could
swallow billiard balls and gold watches
In the New York medical journal fol-
1882 record is made of man who
could swallow clasp knives with i'm,
punity. One day he overdid the bust
ness by swallowing fourteen, and il
killed him, which well it might. In
1870 in England two men of Wiltshire
wagered with each other as to which
, could consume the greatest quantity o.
food in the shortest space of time. One
of them blotted from existence sly
pounds and a half of rabbit, loaf O
bread, and two pounds of cheese in ;
quarter of an hour, and he was st
pleased with the appreciation he re
ceived from the bystanders that he fin
ished off with Il beefsteak, a pint and ;
half of gin, and half pint of brandy
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